The Change-Up is one of the dirtiest-minded mainstream releases in history. It has a low opinion of men, a lower opinion of women, and the lowest opinion of the intelligence of its audience. It is obscene, foul-mouthed, scatological, creepy and perverted. As a bonus, it has the shabbiest low-rent main titles I've seen this side of YouTube.

It is a body switch comedy. You remember those. There must have been dozens. Through some sort of magic, two characters find themselves occupying each other's bodies, or their own bodies at different ages. This can be charming, as when Tom Hanks did it in Big or Jodie Foster in Freaky Friday. And remember Francis Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married, with Kathleen Turner becoming herself as a teenager.

To mention such movies in connection with this one is a sacrilege. Setting aside considerations of the story, The Change-Up sets out to violate and transgress as many standards of civilized conduct as it can. Don't get me wrong. Faithful readers know I treasure cheerful vulgarity. But readers, I've seen The Hangover, and this is no Hangover. Full review.

Willis E. Coley, 26, appears to have killed himself 15 days before an indictment on child pornography charges.

Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Jail

In uniform: Army SPC Willis E. Coley in a photo posted on his MySpace account.

MySpace

1

2

An inmate, a soldier who allegedly trafficked in violent child
pornography, has been found dead in the solitary ward at the
Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Officials say that Willis
E. Coley of Alexandria apparently committed suicide August 2,
nearly nine months after his arrest and two weeks away from a
federal indictment.

A 27-year-old U.S. Army Specialist, Coley was a military
photographer and reporter whose work is featured on numerous
websites. But it was his use of another online application that
brought the charge that preceded his death.

According to the November 17 complaint filed in U.S. DIstrict
Court, a Charlottesville police detective doing undercover work
discovered Coley online on a peer-to-peer file sharing service and
then convinced him to provide a password to his locked files.
According to the complaint, Detective Nicholas Rudman uncovered a
video chamber of horrors including one file entitled "6Yo Girl
Kidnaped and Raped in Woods.mpg" and another called "9Yo Jenny
Blows Dad & Dog.mpg."

The complaint reveals that "Jenny," according to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, has been identified.
Since 2002, a team of analysts at the Center has, with the aid of
law enforcement, identified 3,700 children in such images,
according to Center official John Shehan....

Pat Napoleon addresses City Council to say she can't understand one of its members.

city website

Satyendra Huja acknowledges that he has an accent, and says he's trying to do better.

PHOTO BY HOOK STAFF

1

2

It was business as usual during public comment at the July 18
City
Council meeting, until one citizen veered from typical issues,
such as the Meadowcreek Parkway and the water plan, to raise a new
concern, one that stunned councilors and led to accusations of
xenophobia, government stifling of free speech, and a parliamentary
vote of confidence.

City Council regular Pat Napoleon had finished her comments
about the Parkway and used the rest of her three minutes to address
another matter:

"I must relay a serious concern relating to a sitting member of
Council," said Napoleon. "Others and I have been unable to
understand Mr.
[Satyendra] Huja's comments at City Council meetings and forums
for years. It is the right of citizens to hear and comprehend what
is going on during official meetings."

Huja, former Charlottesville director of strategic planning,
worked for the city for 27 years and was instrumental in creating
the Charlottesville of today with its Downtown Mall, flowers, and
trees. He was born in India 69 years ago, elected to City Council
in 2007, and seeks a second term at the August 20 Democratic
firehouse primary.

Napoleon suggests that any elected officials who could not be
understood should hire a translator at their own expense.

Tomatoes. Like the potato, humankind has invented a multitude of ways to prepare and eat the darn things. On Sunday, July 31, Rapture chef Chris Humphrey presented his take on the fruit of vegetables, serving up a five-course Tomato Dinner.

"Nothing says summer like tomatoes," says Humphrey, whom some may remember from Fellini's #9, where his calamari rocked the house. "And it's been a great season for tomatoes."

Indeed, some industry experts have called this year's Virginia tomato crop the "best they've ever seen," thanks to the steady warm weather that began in early spring. For Sunday's tomato dinner, Rapture owner Mike Rodi says that he and Humphrey simply went to the Charlottesville City Market on Saturday, loaded the tomatoes in his son's red Radio Flyer wagon, and rolled them back to the restaurant.

What to do with the Jefferson School has been debated for nearly a decade.

BUSHMAN DREYFUS DRAWINGS, JEN FARIELLO FILE PHOTO

The long-delayed
renovation of the historic Jefferson School could begin as
early as this week. A private group that purchased the property
from the city for $100,000 signed papers August 1 for a $12-million
loan, clearing the way for work to start on the nearly $18-million
project.

"It's a big, big step and we're very excited," says attorney
Steve Blaine, one of the citizens tapped by the city to form the
Jefferson School Community Partnership LLLP to salvage the aging
structure, once the heart of Charlottesville's black community
during segregation, and turn it into a community center with
nonprofit tenants and an African-American heritage center. "The
contractor is mobilized and ready," says Blaine.

Milestone
Partners will manage the project, and its co-founder, Frank
Stoner, is also a member of the Jefferson School partnership.
Richmond-based Kjellstrom and Lee will do
the construction.

The fate of the Jefferson School has been under discussion since
the school closed its doors to students in 2002. Once the current
plan was in place, the project was stalled first by the recession,
and then by a court decision earlier this year that ruled Virginia
tax credits, upon which the project hinged, could be considered
taxable to the investors...